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Washington (dpa) - One day after the internet company Google, Apple has now banned the right-wing social media app Parler from its app store until further notice.
The platform has violated the App Store conditions, it said in a message from Apple to Parler, which the broadcaster CNN reported on Saturday evening (local time).
"The processes that Parler has set up to moderate or prevent the distribution of dangerous and illegal content have proven to be inadequate," criticized Apple.
In particular, direct threats of violence and calls to incite unlawful acts that violated the guidelines were found.
Parler had been removed from the App Store until the problems were resolved.
A Google spokesman had made a similar statement on Friday.
Google's guidelines required apps with user-generated content to have their own guidelines for "removing outrageous content such as posts that incite violence," it said.
Given the ongoing and acute public safety threat, Parler will no longer be available on Google Pla until these issues are resolved.
Parler CEO John Matze criticized on his platform, according to CNN, that Apple would ban Parler "until we give up free speech, introduce broad and invasive guidelines like Twitter and Facebook and we become a surveillance platform."
Parler describes itself as an “unbiased” medium that supports freedom of speech and focuses on protecting user rights.
It is widespread among supporters of the elected US President Donald Trump and gained popularity in the course of the US election.
According to US media reports, the violent protests by Trump supporters on Wednesday, which culminated in the storming of the Capitol in Washington, were largely organized via apps such as Parler.
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People in Trump's circle had repeatedly advertised Parler as an alternative to Twitter or Facebook, which allegedly suppressed conservative views.
White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said on Twitter at the end of June that she had set up an account with Parler because she was fed up with conservatives being “censored” on these platforms.
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